The Hogster wrote:One of my other predictions won't happen though. Brandon Banks is inactive. I'm sure a big contingent here will be happy to hear that. We'll see how the return game looks!

OK, well you can pick. Is it;

(a) Very Good

(b) Much Better

(c) Excellent

None of the above honestly. Richard Crawford stepped up and made a huge play. But, overall the return game was still mediocre. Niles Paul almost gave the game away. And, Danny Smith is still a liability. The directional kickoffs were horrid.

The Hogster wrote:One of my other predictions won't happen though. Brandon Banks is inactive. I'm sure a big contingent here will be happy to hear that. We'll see how the return game looks!

OK, well you can pick. Is it;

(a) Very Good

(b) Much Better

(c) Excellent

None of the above honestly. Richard Crawford stepped up and made a huge play. But, overall the return game was still mediocre. Niles Paul almost gave the game away. And, Danny Smith is still a liability. The directional kickoffs were horrid.

The Hogster wrote:And, Danny Smith is still a liability. The directional kickoffs were horrid.

So, now you're on the bus with the reasonable people. Danny had Gano kicking high, kicking to the corners, and he struggled at it. Kia, who only has about half a season's worth of experience is being asked to coffin corner kick and he had three kicks that were very close to going out and one of those three did.

So is that his fault? He is being asked to do something that he doesn't face a lot of experience doing. 2 of the 3 worked out (mostly by luck), but they still worked out. However, if the ball had bounced slightly differently on either of those then you have 2 or 3 of 3 that went out of bonds and some people would be killing Kia.

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The Hogster wrote:And, Danny Smith is still a liability. The directional kickoffs were horrid.

So, now you're on the bus with the reasonable people. Danny had Gano kicking high, kicking to the corners, and he struggled at it. Kia, who only has about half a season's worth of experience is being asked to coffin corner kick and he had three kicks that were very close to going out and one of those three did.

So is that his fault? He is being asked to do something that he doesn't face a lot of experience doing. 2 of the 3 worked out (mostly by luck), but they still worked out. However, if the ball had bounced slightly differently on either of those then you have 2 or 3 of 3 that went out of bonds and some people would be killing Kia.

It's on the kicker if he can't do it. But, the coach for asking him to do it knowing he can't. It reflects much worse on Gano because he could kick it through the end zone. So, at worst, he should have been kicking touchbacks to a corner, or a shallow kick that's returned from the edge.

But, everyone--even his college coaches--knows that Kai struggles to kick it to the end zone even straight. We all know the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. So, why would Danny ask him to kick it directionally when he knows it's gonna fall even shorter near the sidelines??